School: Clareen, Birr
- Location:
- Clareen, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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- How Leap Castle got it's name.In the Penal times when a price was on every priest's head a priest was invited to the Castle where some of the English were staying. He came little suspecting what awaited him. He brought his horse inside the gates.While he was eating a maid warned him that they wanted to kill him. He ran out, and they followed him, but he slammed a door in their faces, ran to his horse jumped the gate and got away.That is how the castle got it's name. The Leap Castle.
- Every one in the country side knows that the Leap Castle is haunted on account of all the priests who were put to death there. There is a dead tree in a field opposite the castle where priests used to be hanged. They used also to be left in the dungeon to die, and a priest was once shot at the altar saying Mass by one of the O'Carrolls.(continues on next page)
